Rapture of the Bug: Bug Night #1 (aka opening night)
“You’re beautiful,” he said, “Don’t ever change.”
The Bug Night-ers looking on were startled—some of them were repulsed but most understood. It was not so long ago that a particular bug, worm, shelled creature, or arachnid had captured their hearts, and they were changed by it. They were just a bit surprised that it had happened so quickly with the newest Bug Night-er.
He noticed the gallery of amused, disgusted, and knowing faces focused on him. He averted his eyes and spoke in hushed tones.
“Come home with me,” he said, “Come home with me and I promise you will never be lonely again.”
He looked around furtively and lowered his voice into an intimate whisper.
“They don’t understand us…”
He had a plan.
“Where is the washroom?” he asked in a thin, stilted voice, as he rose with a strange shape in his shirt pocket.
The female White Coat offered to escort him down the long corridor but he demurred. Everyone wondered why he needed his coat and car keys to use the washroom. After a while, no one wondered why he didn’t return, leaving on his ‘scope light.
What happens in the lab in the lab stays in the lab. Come home to Bug Nights. Opening night is Wednesday, February 5, 2020 beginning at 6:00 PM sharp. For driving directions and other information, please visit MerrimackRiver.org.